Hello, I’m Joris Korbeeck and I am 23 years old. I study for my Master’s degree Biomedical Engineering (BME) at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). This university is located in Eindhoven, the Netherlands where I also live in an enjoyable student house together with six housemates. I will cite about BME from TU/e’s studyprograms website:

Technology in healthcare

 Biomedical technology is a subject that is rapidly gaining in importance. Today’s technology has become an essential part of modern healthcare and patient care. Both in industry and in healthcare there is an increasing need for people who can deal with today’s increasingly complex biomedical problems. The biomedical engineer specializes in solving technological problems that require an understanding of the functioning of the human body. These engineers possess knowledge of analytical and synthetic methods based on physics and chemistry, calculation techniques from mathematics and measurement and control systems based on electrical engineering, together with a thorough basic medical and biological understanding.

 Of course, next to my study related activities, I’ve a lot of hobbies like (outdoor) sports, computing (development of programs and websites), watching movies with my friends and, in the meanwhile, drinking some beers. And furthermore I like ‘clubbing’ (‘Singlish’ for going out)... Some outdoor sports I practice are hiking, mountainbiking, climbing/abseiling and more; most of the time with my fellows of the youth organisation YMCA where I also volunteer as outdoor instructor. Most programs made by me are written in Borland Delphi, but I also program a bit in Java, C++ and BASIC. My first worldwide dispersed program is called Scribble-It. It’s a program for managing your thoughts on your desktop. For biomedical research I mainly use Mathematica and formerly MATLAB, two mathematically based programming languages.

 Yes, I met my new girlfriend! During one of the many survival holidays—the school camp of the Barlaeus Gymnasium in Amsterdam—which I attended as an outdoor instructor I came in close, and closer, contact with the lovely girl Bianca. She lives in our capital Amsterdam and studies Human Movement Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). Watch out for her weblog...

 My dad is a psychologist and he works at Adhesie in Almelo, an institute which offers care for people with mental problems. His “target group” particularly are elderlies. In his spare time he repares vintage radios; visit Ben’s Radio Repair Service webpage for more information about this service.

 My mother Hannah is member of a board of an institute for people with a handicap. She has a big passion: painting and other arts (e.g. sculpturing and making/decorate earthenware). She is really as good as Vincent van Gogh and shows some of her work here.

 My sister, Marije, has studied Facility Management in Wageningen. Now she works as manager for an insurrance intermediary. Her husband, my brother-in-law Hugo, is sales manager for Albert Heijn: the biggest grocery in the Netherlands.